On 10/6/07, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote:
> > I believe they are up-to-date now. My understanding is that there is
> > some delay after a new kernel comes out, but it should not be more
> > than a few days. But we have to remember that the whole CentOS
> > project is based on voluntary work by both CentOS team members and the
> > community.
>> Would not the dkms facility, as described here
>>http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules>> ameliorate version problems? I'm not sure, but it seems to be useful
> from my reading.
dkms is useful for automating rebuilding kernel modules upon booting a
new kernel. RPMForge offers a number of dkms-based modules (like the
one for the nvidia driver). dkms is, however, not a
supported/preferred method by CentOS (kmod is). Among other things,
it requires gcc which is not favored in the server environment (so I
understand). In this particular case, drbd is provided as SRPMS, and
CentOS simply rebuilds from them.
Akemi